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Modern Luxury Magazine

10 Best Sushi Restaurants in Nashville

Modern Luxury highlights Sunda New Asian among Nashville’s top sushi destinations, celebrating its vibrant Southeast Asian flavors, inventive sushi, and signature dishes like spicy tuna crispy rice, baked snow crab hand rolls, and wagyu crispy rice.

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Hour Detroit Magazine

Hour Detroit’s Best New Restaurants 2026: Sunda New Asian in Detroit

Hour Detroit named Sunda New Asian one of its Best New Restaurants of 2026, praising the Detroit location for its celebration of Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, and Southeast Asian influences, its distinctive design, and dishes that reflect Sunda’s uniquely cross-cultural approach to Asian cuisine.

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Forbes

17 Delicious Ways To Enjoy Sushi This Summer

Sunda New Asian's Lobster Wagyu Roll is an indulgent sushi creation featuring creamy lobster, wagyu tataki, foie gras aioli, and truffle vinaigrette, balanced with jalapeño and wasabi aioli. The result is a rich yet harmonious blend of luxurious flavors and textures that showcases the restaurant's inventive approach to elevated Asian cuisine.

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Edible

Sunda Detroit brings taste of Southeast Asia to Southeast Michigan

Inspired by his travels throughout Asia and a chance discovery of the ancient region of Sundaland in Singapore, Billy Dec built Sunda as a celebration of connection, culture, and cuisine. The Detroit location brings that vision to life through bold pan-Asian dishes, thoughtful design, and a menu shaped by Dec's Filipino heritage and years of culinary exploration.

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Forbes

30 Delectable Ways To Appreciate Caviar

Celebrate National Caviar Day at Sunda New Asian with the limited-time Caviar Sundae, a playful, interactive dessert featuring premium Kaluga caviar, vanilla ice cream, turon, and sweet-and-savory toppings designed to be shared.

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Davidson County Source

Sunda New Asian & Billy Dec to Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month

This May, Sunda New Asian invites guests to celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, highlighted by the national television premiere of the award-winning documentary FOOD ROOTS from Sunda CEO/Founder and Emmy Award-winning restauranteur, Billy Dec.

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Detroit PBS

Restaurateur Billy Dec’s Filipino “Food Roots:” New PBS documentary and Detroit restaurant

Billy Dec is an entrepreneur and restaurateur who opened Sunda New Asian Cuisine in his home city of Chicago in 2009. He opened a downtown Detroit location of Sunda in March, located between the Fox and Fillmore Theatres. He is also the subject of a new documentary on PBS called “Food Roots,” executive produced by Detroit native Doug Blush (“Coldwater Kitchen”) and directed by Michele Josue (“Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine,” “Happy Jail”).

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Norcal Public Media

Billy Dec on Savoring Sonoma: The Hour

On this episode of Savoring Sonoma: The Hour, host Clark Wolf welcomes Billy Dec. He’s an Emmy Award winning restaurateur, media personality, entrepreneur, and so much more. They preview Dec's new documentary Food Roots, his personal exploration of connection to family, ancestral cooking traditions, and the cultures and foundational elements of his origins. It a lively, beautiful, and emotional story of someone’s very real life.

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